Question
The grocery store clerk Ethan Allen Hawley attempts to regain his family’s lost wealth and status in a John Steinbeck novel titled for this phrase. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this four-word phrase at the beginning of a speech. Laurence Olivier popularized pausing to emphasize a pun in that speech, which describes this phrase being “made glorious summer by this sun [pause] of York.”
ANSWER: winter of our discontent [accept “Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun of York”]
[10e] The “now is the winter of our discontent” speech begins this Shakespeare play, whose title king cries “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!” at the Battle of Bosworth Field.
ANSWER: Richard III
[10h] Two answers required. The night before the Battle of Bosworth Field, Richard is visited by the ghosts of his victims, who repeatedly command him to do these two things.
ANSWER: despair and die [accept in either order; accept “despair, therefore, and die!”]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 12.22 | 78% | 33% | 11% |
Data
| NYU B | Bard A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Vassar | Haverford | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rutgers A | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn B | Rutgers B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Princeton A | Rowan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell C | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Columbia B | Yale B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale C | Princeton B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |